Shell command to sum integers, one per line?

Question

I am looking for a command that will accept as input multiple lines of text, each line containing a single integer, and output the sum of these integers.

As a bit of background, I have a log file which includes timing measurements, so through grepping for the relevant lines, and a bit of sed reformatting I can list all of the timings in that file. I'd like to work out the total however, and my mind has gone blank as to any command I can pipe this intermediate output to in order to do the final sum. I've always used expr in the past, but unless it runs in RPN mode I don't think it's going to cope with this (and even then it would be tricky).

What am I missing? Given that there are probably several ways to achieve this, I will be happy to read (and upvote) any approach that works, even if someone else has already posted a different solution that does the job.

Related question: Shortest command to calculate the sum of a column of output on Unix? (credits @Andrew)

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Update: Wow, as expected there are some nice answers here. Looks like I will definitely have to give awk deeper inspection as a command-line tool in general!

Answer 1

Bit of awk should do it?

awk '{s+=$1} END {print s}' mydatafile

Note: some versions of awk have some odd behaviours if you are going to be adding anything exceeding 2^31 (2147483647). See comments for more background. One suggestion is to use printf rather than print:

awk '{s+=$1} END {printf "%.0f", s}' mydatafile

Answer 2

perl -lne '$x += $_; END { print $x; }' < infile.txt

Answer 3

C (not simplified)

seq 1 10 | tcc -run <(cat << EOF
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
    int sum = 0;
    int i = 0;
    while(scanf("%d", &i) == 1) {
        sum = sum + i;
    }
    printf("%d\n", sum);
    return 0;
}
EOF)

Answer 4

My fifteen cents:

$ cat file.txt | xargs  | sed -e 's/\ /+/g' | bc

Example:

$ cat text
1
2
3
3
4
5
6
78
9
0
1
2
3
4
576
7
4444
$ cat text | xargs  | sed -e 's/\ /+/g' | bc 
5148

Answer 5

Plain bash one liner

$ cat > /tmp/test
1 
2 
3 
4 
5
^D

$ echo $(( $(cat /tmp/test | tr "\n" "+" ) 0 ))

Answer 6

You can using num-utils, although it may be overkill for what you need. This is a set of programs for manipulating numbers in the shell, and can do several nifty things, including of course, adding them up. It's a bit out of date, but they still work and can be useful if you need to do something more.

http://suso.suso.org/programs/num-utils/